Tigris

[quote]Long-whiskered Owlet? [/quote] Yep. Maybe my favorite bird ever. It's a long hike down to the habitat. Then you wait. And wait. Finally one came in. We couldn't see it at first because it was really close and we were looking in the trees well behind it. It was a shock when we realized ...

[quote]Our decision to meddle in that part of the world sure hasn’t aged well.[/quote] Great Russian talking point but it's just horseshite. Ukraine voted decisively for independence in 1991 because Russia has been abusing them for a very long time. Our "meddling" in the 1920's was to give food ...

[quote]Have you seen a Marvelous Spatuletail in the wild?[/quote] I have, but only females and young males. That was a major disappointment, they almost always have full males. Northern Peru was a great tour though in spite of not seeing a good male Spatula tail. We had more bird species than a...

[quote]There is no noise pollution, no light population, no booming stereo, no guns being fired or carjackings to name just a few. I still have a few years before I retire, but I think this might be the perfect time to purchase some land, so when I do retire, I know exactly where I will be going!...

[quote]Pete Townshend of The Who was (is?) one of his followers[/quote] Interesting - Tommy was a deaf, dumb, and blind child. And the Tommy album cover looks like that fence....

[quote]Thing has a creepy face in its scale color pattern[/quote] Pretty sure that's a sloth, non-venomous....

Have you ever considered going down to Ecuador for hummingbird photos? The hummingbirds there are really mind boggling. I've been several times and really love the country. Most of South and Central America too, but Ecuador is just special for birds....

[quote]The high casualties are a feature, not a bug. He's saying "I'm willing to kill hundreds of thousands of my own citizens and destroy my economy to get what I want. Are you?"[/quote] Especially when it allows him to empty the jails and throw Muslims into the meat grinder. "Quantity has ...

[quote]1,300 arrests (mostly alcohol-related offenses) are only documented back to 1992[/quote] That makes it almost exactly once per week from 1992 through 2017. Probably not cardiac arrest, it likely would have mentioned that....

[img]https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81Ch0jgpRGL._AC_UL210_SR210,210_.jpg[/img] I'm about half way through, highly recommended. Excellent forward for the most recent edition that gets into the history of the relation between Ukraine and Russia, written after the Russian invasion...